Joker poster beside other comic book posters: Stay, they're probably cool. Joker poster beside grindset posters: Refer to counselling and taxi home. Joker poster beside Joker 2019 Poster: RUN TO FUCK
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I think as a guy you should never express interest in anything because it's going to be problematic tomorrow.
That sounds exactly like what someone who once faced consequences for one particular thing would say.
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He listed the highly inappropriate and unpopular movies that nobody ever heard of Full Metal Jacket and Fight Club.
I think someone spends too much time reading posts on the internet.
edit: i was right, yep, menslib subreddit reader.
Because other people decided they were problematic after I got into them
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Fuck that. Fuck that entirely.
It's true. A lot of my favorite movies are considered red flags just because enough dude bro dipshits misinterpret them.
When people online are this vague and hand-wavy, you know 99% of the time they're downplaying some really stupid stand they took about that something a date or friend didn't like one fucking time and they can't let it go.
Or they don't have friends at all, and just read all the manosphere self-victimization forums.
Edit: he got lost down the menslib rabbit hole of over analyzing everything until reality itself loses meaning and you begin to think breathing is problematic to someone, somewhere.
I am not saying I am a victim. I am just expressing frustration with something. Shit like this is why those places got popular.
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Fight Club and Full Metal Jacket to name two.
I've never heard of Fight club being a red flag. Probably it could be one if you're overly obsessed with the movie, and express it with a focus on the toxic masculine parts of the movie, but in that case the issue is you being a red flag.
Some people do consider it a red flag, because there are idiots who misinterpret the movie and enough of them that interpret it as pro “toxic masculinity” that it’s scared a few people off. (Kinda like how 2019 Joker is a great film, but enough weirdos think it’s an endorsement of their weird behaviors.)
Like it’s a gay man’s satire of masculinity (and about the homoeroticism inherent to fascistic movements). It’s a joke. Notice how the narrator never wants to fuck Martha - that he spends late nights roaming, looking for other men to engage physically with. The fights are a cruising metaphor.
Fincher makes it even more obvious with the casting. Like yeah Helena Bingham Carter is hot, but we’re all here to gawk at Edward Norton and Brad Pitt.
Those are insanely popular movies.
I've only seen academic critique and of course more cerebral criticisms because of how they were reflections of their time, like many movies.
If you had actual people in real life attack you for liking these movies, either you were being weird about them and not listening to someone's academic takes because you don't understand them or you met a nut. Otherwise I think it's bullshit and you just wanna be oppressed for liking [POPULAR THING]
I just don't tell people I like them.
what the... then, how could you possibly be attacked for liking them?
Are you just creating things in your mind to feel bad about???
Because hear people talk about them.
Which people and where? I am dead serious, there is reason why I want to know.
I used to go to places like menslib on reddit. That shit was what was mostly talked about. It pops up in some of the podcasts I listen to.
As someone who knows far more about Menslib than I should probably say in the open, I can safely tell you that you need to get off the internet and not read gender-oriented material at all. Podcasts too. This is media, it's meant to create conversations and most people don't take it seriously. Or at least they shouldn't.
The internet has this way of seeping into your head and making you think the constant barrage of sensationalism, of intrusive thoughts-turned-posts, of fake people pretending to be outraged, it makes you think all of this is any way how people actually view the world and it programs you to do the same.
I lived in the before-times, I know how people thought before. It wasn't like this. When you're not infected with the aimless thoughts of thousands of faceless voices in space, you can just enjoy what you enjoy and nobody cares. And if someone does care and not like a thing you like, you say "oh that's too bad, I like it though." And that was it. End of story. Those two people would then go on to like, get married and have a pile of kids because back then, we weren't always looking for contention. That's the other thing these spaces do, is make you aware of contention that doesn't impact you and only serves to clutter up your mind.
This entire fetid mess is screwing up our minds, and then you take this screwed-up vision of the world and post it somewhere else, so the ~~thousands~~ hundreds of super-sensitive, sheltered Lemmy users read it and now all the tender boys here are wringing their hands over a non-issue as well and absolute nonsense spreads and spreads and spreads.
You like something? Like it. Stop trying to please people while at the same time stay respectful and kind and just get on with your day and life without excuses or hand-wringing about things that aren't real.
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